Recent Externally Funded Awards
March - April 2020
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | State of Washington Office of Superintendent | Inclusionary Practices Statewide Professional Development & Support | $1,337,786 |
| Skrtic, Thomas | Special Education | Stanford University | Leadership in Research and Teacher Preparation for System-Wide Inclusive Education | $1,249,879 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Maryland State Department of Education | Innovations in Science Map, Assessment, and Report Technologies (I-SMART) | $884,610 |
| Volkin, David | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Ultra Low-Cost Transferable Automated (ULTRA) Platform for Vaccine Manufacturing | $828,787 |
| Zhong, Cuncong | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | National Science Foundation | CAREER: A Novel Bioinformatic Infrastructure for Metagenome Assembly and Functional Annotation | $722,398 |
| Lequesne, Remy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Electric Power Research Institute Inc. | Large High-Strength Steel Reinforcing Bars in Earthquake-Resistant Structures | $650,000 |
| Bulgren, Janis | Life Span Institute | CAST Inc. | CORGI 2020: Scaling Models for the Classrooms of Tomorrow | $523,298 |
| Staples, William | Sociology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | SaTC: CORE: Small: Digital Homelessness in the Heartland: Safeguarding and Enhancing the Experiences of Public Internet Users | $516,000 |
| Biernat, Monica | Psychology | National Science Foundation | Learning to Pronounce Ethnic Names as a Means of Improving Inter-Ethnic Interaction | $385,410 |
| Salandrino, Alessandro | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Parametric Resonances in Time-Varying Media for Optical Limiting Applications | $360,986 |
| Holubnyak, Yevhen | Kansas Geological Survey | New Mexico Tech | Carbon Utilization and Storage Partnership (CUSP) for the Western USA | $337,706 |
| Lunte, Susan | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Kansas Board of Regents | Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways (CMADP) | $300,000 |
| Zieber, Nicole | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Young Infants' Detection of Emotion | $272,075 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Shigella Ipa Proteins Support | $205,713 |
| Leonard, Kevin | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Kansas Board of Regents | The Internet of Catalysis: Harnessing the Data Science for Catalyst Design | $200,000 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Facility | $159,075 |
| McKenna, Thomas | Kansas Biological Survey | Perennial Agriculture Project LLC | Perennial Agriculture Project Proposal for Thomas P. McKenna | $101,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Department of Revenue | Research Services to the Governor's Council on Tax Reform | $100,000 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Wyoming Department of Family Services | State of Wyoming ROM FY2020 | $98,725 |
| Walker, Dale | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $92,254 |
| Zeng, Yong | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicle in Ovarian Cancer | $90,000 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Ecological Momentary Assessment of Unhealthy Exercise and Affect in Eating Disorders | $83,836 |
| Vernberg, Eric | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | The Influence of Executive Functioning on Internalizing and Somatic Symptoms in Trauma-Exposed Arab Resettled Refugee Parent-Child Dyads | $75,321 |
| Thompson, Ward | Chemistry | Sandia National Laboratories | Molecular Modeling of Fluid Properties at Mineral Interfaces | $75,000 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Undergraduate Coordinator Office Year 7 | $53,025 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Arkansas Medical Sciences | Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network | $50,822 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Phrma Foundation | Antigen-Fc Conjugates as Bioinspired Immunotherapeutics | $50,000 |
| Ng, Jennifer | Provost Office | National Endowment for the Arts | KU Indigenous Cultures Festival | $40,000 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / KU Transportation Center | Kansas State University Sponsored Programs Accounting | FY20: Traffice Assistance Services for Kansas (TASK) Program | $39,297 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / KU Transportation Center | Skye Multimedia | National Scheduling and Dispatching Training Manual Update | $35,231 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics & Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology | Spitzer Transits of New TESS Planets | $35,000 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics & Astronomy | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | NRAO Student Observing Support Award to Kurt Hablin | $34,410 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Illinois Urbana-Champain | Technologies to Support Aging-in-Place for People with Long-Term Disabilities | $33,747 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU Southeast Wichita GEAR UP Project Evaluation | $33,590 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU West Wichita GEAR UP | $33,590 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics & Astronomy | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Does Excess Mid-Infrared Emission Reliably Signal an AGN? | $32,500 |
| Cheatham, Gregory | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Connecticut | Doctoral Training Consortia to Train Doctoral Students in Early Childhood Intervention for Infants and Young Children with High-Intensity Needs because of Significant IDD | $25,707 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Star Trainees | $21,210 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Division of Emergency Management | KDEM User Management Portal and Server Hosting | $20,536 |
| Stiller, Maya | History of Art | The Academy of Korean Studies | Status Pilgrimage: The Cultural Value of Elite Travel to Kumgangsan in Late Choson Korea | $20,000 |
Previous Awards
January-February
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Blunt, Shannon |
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Office of Naval Research | Navy Applications of Physical MIMO and Waveform Diversity | $1,730,886 |
| Rogan, Christopher | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Probing the High-Energy Frontier with the CMS Experiment | $949,975 |
| Kelly, John | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Chromosomal Inversions and Gene Expression in Mimulus | $749,581 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | FY 2020 Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) | $600,000 |
| Kwon, Gibum | Mechanical Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Thermo-responsive Absorbent with Selective Absorption for Miscible Liquids Separation | $549,996 |
| Wu, Huixuan | Aerospace Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Quantification of the Kinetic Energy of Particles in Complex Flows using Magnetic Particle Tracking | $500,000 |
| Li, Xianglin | Mechanical Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Pore-Scale Multiphase Mass Transfer in Porous Electrodes | $500,000 |
| Witt, Emily | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | CAREER: New Frontiers for Frobenius, Singularity Theory, Differential Operators, and Local Cohomology | $400,000 |
| Blanco, Gustavo | KUMC Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology/ Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | KU Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program | $360,771 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Education | Development Length and Splice Strength of High-Strength Reinforcing Bars in High-Strength Concrete | $300,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Office of the State Superintendent of Education | DC DLM: 2019-2024 Operational/Testing (Sci) | $246,120 |
| Katz, William | Business | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center 2020 (federal funds) | $177,819 |
| Liu, Zhipeng | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Periodic KPZ Universality | $168,628 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas MIECHV Program | $157,000 |
| Lundquist, Erik | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Regulation of Growth Cone Polarity and Protrusion in Axon Guidance | $140,660 |
| Warren, Steve | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Northwestern University | A Family-Genetic Study of Autism and Fragile X Syndrome | $136,604 |
| Benson, David | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | REU Site: A Summer Experience for Undergraduates Integrating Research, Education and Career Development in an Interdisciplinary Environment | $126,131 |
| Carta, Judith | Special Education / Life Span Institute | The Family Conservancy | Start Young | $123,300 |
| Shrader, Sarah | Pharmacy Practice | Health Forward Foundation | JayWalk WyCo: Collaborating for Healthy Lifestyles in Wyandotte County | $106,763 |
| Walker, Dale | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $102,788 |
| Rosa-Molinar, Eduardo | Pharmacology and Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Science Foundation | WORKSHOP | Modern Methods in Microscopy: Elucidating the Physical Biology of the Cell (Summers 2020 & 2021, Lawrence, KS) | $100,000 |
| Chernetsky, Vitaly | Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies | The U.S. Russia Foundation | A Comprehensive Plan for Strengthening Russian Studies in the Heartland | $98,340 |
| Katz, William | Business | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center 2020 (state funds) | $93,927 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | Open Records for Kansas Appraisers (ORKA) | $88,500 |
| Buzhardt, Joseph | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Online and Applied System for Intervention Skills (OASIS): Scaling Up | $85,523 |
| Mandel, Rolfe | Anthropology / Kansas Geological Survey | History Nebraska | A Statewide Geographic Information System (GIS) as a Predictive Tool for Locating Deeply Buried Archeological Deposits in Nebraska (PHASE II) | $75,000 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Autism Speaks | Mechanisms of Visual Motion Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder | $70,000 |
| Holt, Christina | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Evaluation of the Healthy Schools Healthy Communities Initiative | $63,300 |
| Azuma, Mizuki | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center | The Role of Sugar (O-GlcNAc) Modification of EWS-FLI1 in Malignant Progression of Ewing's Sarcoma and its Therapeutic Potential | $56,950 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Geological Society | Software Development for Kansas Electronic Data Integration | $55,000 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Community-Based Project Evaluation | $55,000 |
| Brumberg, Jonathan | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical & Translational Science Institute | $50,000 |
| Brockman, Jennifer | Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Gender-Based Violence Prevention Impact Evaluation | $42,163 |
| Mandel, Rolfe | Anthropology / Kansas Geological Survey | R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates Inc | KU Center for Research Inc. & R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates Master Sponsored Research Agreement | $40,775 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Education Administration / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Army Educational Outreach Program | Army Educational Outreach Program (UNITE) | $40,262 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Kansas Real-Time Flood Mapping Tool Development (state funds) | $40,000 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant for Biotechnology Innovation & Optimization Center (BIOC) | $39,331 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Generating a Mouse to Test Musashi 1 Inhibitors as Anti-tumor Agents | $35,000 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Neurocorrelates of Episodic Future Thinking and its Impact on Delay Discounting by Cigarette Smokers | $35,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Kansas Real-Time Flood Mapping Tool Development (federal funds) | $35,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey | Terrametrics Agriculture Inc. | U.S. County-Level Corn & Soybean Yield Modeling and Brazil & Argentina Soybean Yield Model Development & Implementation | $34,000 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Department of Health & Environment Contract for Second-Step Evaluation Project | $34,000 |
| Caminero-Santangelo, Marta | Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | Tinker Foundation Inc | Tinker Field Research Grant 2020 | $30,000 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant: Cancer Biology Research Program | $27,693 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | CPS Cancer Prevention and Survivorship Research Program: KUCC Core | $27,435 |
| Cook, Michael | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute | Kansas Division of Emergency Managment | Trainings to Kansas Counties through Kansas University Fire & Rescue Training Institute During the Federal Fiscal Year 2019-2020 | $25,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas | The Economic Impacts of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas | $25,000 |
| Roy, Anuradha | Pharmacology & Toxicology / High Throughput Screening Laboratory | KU Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant Lead Development & Optimization Share Resource | $22,319 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Circulating Extracellular Vesicles for Early Detection and Real-Time Monitoring of Ovarian Cancer | $20,325 |
November - December 2019
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Chandler, Josephine |
Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Quorum Sensing Evolution and Function in Mixed Bacterial Communities | $1,840,725 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Principal and Charter School Site Leadership SWIFT for Equity and Excellence | $1,199,998 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Increased Sensitivity of Minimal Residual Disease Monitoring using Peripheral Blood in Pediatric Patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | $910,799 |
| Akin, Becci | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Children & Families | Prevention Grant Evaluation, Families First Prevention Services Act | $861,123 |
| Weis, David | Chemistry | Health Research, Inc. | Lyme Disease: B Cell Epitope Discovery and Mechanisms of Antibody Protection | $808,955 |
| Volkin, David | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | International AIDS Vaccine Initiative | Antigen-Adjuvant Formulation and Characterization Studies to Assess HIV-1 Envelope (Env) Glycoprotein(s) and Adjuvant Formulations | $700,000 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Maryland - Baltimore | Adjuvant Development of the TLR4 Ligand BECC438 | $670,147 |
| Hasiuk, Franciszek | Kansas Geological Survey | Iowa Department of Transportation | Phase III Iowa Pore Index: Morphometric Properties of Aggregates | $345,525 |
| Funk, Ryan | Pharmacy Practice | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Metabolomic Markers of Disease Activity and Therapeutic Response in Autoimmune Arthritis | $227,251 |
| Darabi Konartakhteh, Masoud | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Texas A&M Research Foundation | Performance Prediction and Analysis of Airfield Pavements Subjects to Next Generation Aircraft | $225,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wisconsin Department of Children & Families | Wisconsin Family Foundations Home Visiting Shared Measurements System | $215,916 |
| Boyd, Brian | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Examining Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Extreme Eating Behaviors in Young Children with ASD | $194,682 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Service | Medicaid Waiver Functional Eligibility Instrument: HCBS PACE Research | $173,463 |
| Ewing, Mark | Aerospace Engineering / Office of Research | Kansas Department of Transportation | Master Research Services Agreement for Unmanned Aerial Systems Flight Operations, Technical Integration, and Research | $150,000 |
| Hernandez, Daniel | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | A Study of Hypersurfaces in General Position Inspired by Frobenius | $145,000 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | Medicaid Waiver Functional Eligibility Instrument: HCBS PACE Instruction | $135,564 |
| Reuman, Daniel | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of California - Davis | Synchrony of Native Fish Movements: Synthesis Science towards Adaptive Water Management in the Central Valley | $123,571 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | American Chemical Society | Relating Surface Chemistry of Carbonaceous Materials to Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation Rates to Advance the Characterization of Petroleum Deposits | $110,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Orange County Department of Education | ACCESS | $108,000 |
| Bennett, Caroline | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigation of High Mast Illumination Poles: Influence of Light Fixtures | $100,000 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Streambank Evaluation of the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers above John Redmond | $100,000 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Hafion LLC | Toward the Development of a Protein:Non-Protein Macromolecular Adjuvants | $100,000 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | Heising-Simons Foundation | Connecting Regional Research to Local Communities: Helheim Glacier/Sermilik Fjord and Tasiilaq township, East Greenland | $100,000 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities | Supporting Decision Making: Learning from Self-Advocate Experience | $95,584 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Nature Conservancy | Integrated Watershed Modeling | $93,000 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Service | Medicaid Waiver Functional Eligibility Instrument: CARE INSTRUCTION | $85,348 |
| Yung, Corey Rayburn | School of Law | Harvard University | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | $77,500 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | How Do State Policies Affect Access to TANF Benefits? | $75,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation | Accessible Recreation: Playing Electronic Games Independently to Increase Health & Social Connection | $75,000 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | RNA-Binding Protein HuR in Liver Pathophysiology and Carcinogenesis | $74,797 |
| Hardy, Saralyn Reece | Spencer Museum of Art | National Endowment for the Arts | Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body | $45,000 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kickapoo Tribe | Cooperative Agreements for Tribal Behavior Health (Native Connections) | $42,282 |
| Li, Xiaoli | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Geology | Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonates Consortium | Phase Behavior of the Confined Fluids in Carbonate Unconventional Reservoirs | $40,762 |
| McGeough, Briana | Social Welfare | Public Health Institute: Alcohol Research Group | Understanding 12-Step Involvement Among Sexual and Gender Minorities | $34,385 |
| Zeng, Yong | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Exosome Phenotyping for Liquid Biopsy Based Diagnosis and Monitoring of Alzheimer's Disease | $30,000 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Second Step Evaluation Project | $26,000 |
| Baer, Sara | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Kansas State University | Processes Influencing Community Assembly During Tallgrass Prairie Restoration | $24,659 |
| Peterson, Andrew Townsend | Biodiversity Institute | Northrop Grumman Foundation | Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing to Inform Conservation Planning and Decision-Making in Sapo National Park, Liberia | $20,000 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Core Facility Support (CFS) | $20,000 |
| Bolick, Joshua | Libraries | North Carolina State University | Scholarly Communication Notebook | $17,273 |
September - October 2019
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wills, Howard | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Supporting High-Needs Elementary Students with the CW-FIT Program: Building for Scale and Sustainability | $5,101,906 |
| Peterson, Andrew Townsend | Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | RII Track-2 FEC: Marshalling Diverse Big Data Streams to Understand Risk of Tick-Borne Diseases in the Great Plains | $3,921,229 |
| Ptomey, Lauren | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | A Dyadic Approach for a Remote Physical Activity Intervention in Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and their Caregivers | $3,756,677 |
| Kalantari Dahaghi, Amirmasoud | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | U.S. Department of Energy | A Novel Smart Microchip Proppants Technology for Precision Diagnostics of Hydraulic Fracture Networks | $3,490,639 |
| Leonard, Kevin | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | NRT-HDR: The Internet of Catalysis - Harnessing Data Science for Catalyst Design | $2,999,967 |
| He, Mei | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | 3D Biomimetic Lymph Node Engineered Extracellular Vesicles for Understanding the Heterogeneity of Adaptive Immunity | $1,893,750 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Advancement in Seismic Imaging for Tunnel Detection: ASI to ASII-Skinny | $1,499,999 |
| Walker, James | Geology | National Science Foundation | EarthCube Data Capabilities: Collaborative Proposal: Broadening Community Use and Adoption of StraboSpot | $1,005,934 |
| Wills, Howard | Life Span Institute | University of Missouri-Columbia | Evaluating the Efficacy of a Daily Check-in/Check-out Intervention for Students At-Risk for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders | $730,000 |
| Britt, Nicholas | Pharmacy Practice | Gillead Sciences | Modeling Micro-Elimination of HCV Infection in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Infected Patients in the United States VA Healthcare System | $592,469 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Inservice Training System (KITS)-Infant and Toddler Expansion | $553,670 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | MRI: Acquisition of an Advanced Gravimetric Analyzer for Material Research at KU-Lawrence | $537,459 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology | $430,572 |
| Suarez, Marina | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Time of Transformation: Integrating the Dynamic Geologic, Climatic and Biotic Systems of North America during the Early to Late Cretaceous Transition | $408,739 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Development and Application of a Molecular and Process Design Framework for the Separation of Hydrofluorocarbo Mixtures | $299,710 |
| Carlson, Juliana | Social Welfare | Futures Without Violence | A Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in Child Welfare | $280,995 |
| Hardy, Saralyn Reece | Spencer Museum of Art | Institute of Museum & Library Services | Building Capacity for Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion at the Spencer Museum of Art | $271,181 |
| Houts, Michael | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism | Greater Prairie Chicken Interstate Working Group Planning and Coordination | $252,878 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | The Chemours Company | Physical Properties of Refrigerants in Lubricants, Polymers, and Higher Boiling Heat Transfer Fluids: KU-Chemours Part II | $244,766 |
| Mechem, David | Geography & Atmospheric Sciences | University of Maryland-Baltimore | Characterizing the Variation and Covariation of Cloud Microphysical Properties and Implications for Simulation of Subgrid-Scale Warm-Rain Processes in Earth System Models | $242,774 |
| Feldman, Hume | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Beyond the Bulk Flow: Developing More Powerful Analysis Methods to Test Consistency of Large-Scale Flows with the Standard Cosmological Model | $232,692 |
| Funk, Ryan | Pharmacy Practice | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $155,871 |
| Fischer, Christopher | Physics & Astronomy / Higuchi Biosciences Center | American Physical Society | PhysTEC: Building a Solution to the National Physics Teacher Shortage | $147,450 |
| Brook, Joanna | Social Welfare | Oklahoma Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services | Oklahoma Partnership Initiative, Phase 3: Program Evaluation FY2020 | $135,000 |
| Pribbenow, Glenn | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) FY18 | $135,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Sediment Coring for HAB Trends at Webster and Kanopolis Reservoirs | $100,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | United Way, Kansas City, Missouri | United Way Quality Matter Technical Assistance | $100,000 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine | $95,006 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services | Home Visiting Data Collection and Management - Nebraska | $94,987 |
| Sprague-Jones, Jessica | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Oxford | Evaluating Military Family Programming | $90,256 |
| Sprague-Jones, Jessica | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Children's Museum of Tacoma | Evaluating Military Family Programming | $90,256 |
| Freeman, Craig | Biodiversity Institute | Oklahoma State University | Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research | Earth and Sky: Digitizing the Vascular Flora of the South-Central United States | $78,867 |
| Kepple, Nancy | Social Welfare / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Institute of Justice | Marco-Level Influences on Police Decision-Making and Engagement with Victims of Serious Violent Crimes: A Narrative Case Study of Two States | $78,783 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Coming Together and Moving Forward: Supporting Self-Determination, Independence, and Decision-Making in Kansas | $75,000 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: Biomedical Engineering Core | $74,697 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Oklahoma State University | Measuring Transport Properties of Portland Cement Concrete Using Electrical Resistivity | $71,158 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translations Science Institute | $68,422 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | Southeast Kansas Respite Care Services (SEKRS) | $66,100 |
| Sprague-Jones, Jessica | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Chapel Hill Training Outreach Project | National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention | $65,000 |
| Lamb, Audrey | Molecular Biosciences / Graduate Studies | National Science Foundation | Graduate Research Fellowship Program | $51,000 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | With Foundation | Promoting Supported Decision Making Planning for Self-Advocates and Families | $50,000 |
| Slusky, David | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Conferences to Strengthen the Kansas Health Economics Community | $49,763 |
| Walker, James | Geology | Columbia University | IEDA 2016-2021: Operation of a Multi-Disciplinary Data Facility for the Earth Science Community | $49,559 |
| Banwart, Mary Christine | Communication Studies / Institute for Leadership Studies | The Women's Foundation of Greater Kansas City | Kansas Women's Civic Leadership through the Appointments Project and Ready to Run, Kansas | $46,500 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | Evaluation of the Wichita North GEAR UP Program | $40,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | GEAR UP, South Wichita Project | $40,000 |
| Jarmolowicz, David | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Kansas State University | Effects of Exercise on Animal Cognition | $37,875 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Enterprise Center of Johnson County | Kansas Entrepreneurship Report | $35,000 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | Active Treatment Training Program-Kansas Neurological Institute | $35,000 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | Active Treatment Training Program-Parsons State Hospital | $35,000 |
| Besson, David | Physics & Astronomy | NASA Goddard Space Center | Ultra-High Energy Particle Astrophysics with ANITA-V - University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (Co-I) | $30,000 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | Stockholm University | Ripples of Resilience: Navigating Cross-Scale SDG Interactions of Water, Land and Climate within Planetary Boundaries | $24,244 |
| Rice, Mabel | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Tulane University | Pediatric HIV/Aids Cohort Study (PHACS) Coordinating Center (CC)(U01) | $22,695 |
| Coleman, Audrey | Dole Institute of Politics | Humanities Kansas | Voices from Congressman Dole's Kansas, 1960-1968 | $20,000 |
July - August 2019
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subramanian, Jaichandar | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | Synapse Structural Dynamics and Memory Loss in Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease | $1,839,822 |
| Smith, Adam | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | Structural and Functional Connectivity of the Social Decision-Making Network | $1,835,772 |
| Hill, Mary | Geology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | FEWtures: Innovation Analysis Framework for Resilient Futures, with Application to the Central Arkansas River Basin | $1,400,000 |
| Beach, James | Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | CIBR: Collaborative Research: Integrating Data Communities with BiotaPhy: A Computational Platform for Data-Intensive Biodiversity Research and Training | $1,245,287 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Cool Science: Art as a Vehicle for Intergenerational Learning | $799,323 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | North Dakota Department of Public Instruction | North Dakota DLM: 2019-2020 Operational/Testing (Sci) + Science Development | $664,500 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Office of Naval Research | Waveform Diversity Experimentation System (WaDES) | $622,882 |
| Arnold, Emily | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | National Science Foundation | CAREER: UAS-Based Radar Suite for Sounding and Mapping Glaciers | $609,816 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | CEBC + Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | PFI-RP: Development of Continuous Process Concepts for Upgrading Lignin in Biorefineries | $549,915 |
| Arnold, Emily | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration | Airborne Snow Depth Retrieval for Improved Hydrological Modeling | $499,926 |
| Thorp III, James | Kansas Biological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Proposal | MRA: Teleconnections Among Great Plains NEON Sites by Wind and Wing | $417,130 |
| Lamb, Audrey | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | The Chemistry of Riboflavin Biosynthesis | $400,000 |
| Elles, Christopher | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Broadband Two-Photon Absorption Spectroscopy for High-Repetition Rate Lasers | $397,788 |
| Baer, Sara | Kansas Biological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | LTREB Renewal: The Role of Ecological Heterogeneity in a Long-Term Grassland Restoration Experiment | $392,655 |
| Jackson, Timothy | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Geometric and Electronic Structure Contributions to Bond-Breaking and Bond-Making Reactions of Mid-Valent Manganese-Oxygen Complexes | $390,000 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas ECCS Impact Grant | $386,646 |
| Chandler, Josephine | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Quorum Sensing Rvolution and Function in Mixed Bacterial Communities | $368,145 |
| Sullivan, Pamela | Geography & Atmospheric Science | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Digging Deeper: Do Deeper Roots Enhance Deeper Water and Carbon Fluxes and Alter the Trajectory of Chemical Weathering in Woody Encroached Grasslands? | $334,681 |
| Irvin, Dwight | Life Span Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | CSL-MultiAD: Assessing Collaborative STEM Learning through Rich Information Flow Based on Multi-Sensor Audio Diarization | $300,000 |
| Baringer, Philip | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Particle Physics at the Energy Frontier with the CMS Experiment | $300,000 |
| Hoeflich, Michael | Law / Hall Center for the Humanities | Department of Defense | University of Kansas IC Center for Academic Excellence (KU-ICCAE) | $295,967 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Ohio State University | Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence-Related Injury | $293,507 |
| Jensen, Kirsten | Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Cestode Phylogeny and Genomics: A Spine for the Spineless, Gutless worms | $286,810 |
| Roy, Anuradha | High Throughput Screening Lab | Kansas State University | Discovery of Hsp100-Selective Inhibitors for Targeting Multiple Microbial Pathogens - High Throughput Screening | $286,509 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Equipment Exchange: Increasing Access to Durable Medical Equipment (DME) | $285,000 |
| Stefanov, Atanas | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Dynamics and Stability of Nonlinear Waves | $231,127 |
| Suarez, Marina | Geology | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Continental Paleoenvironmental Responses to Carbon Cycle Perturbations During the Mid-Cretaceous Greenhouse | $230,971 |
| Taylor, Michael | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | What Created the Southern Tibetan Plateau Drainage Divide? Integrated Tectonic and Geomorphic Investigation of the Gangdese Range and Yarlung River | $229,448 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Assisting Medicaid Beneficiaries in Accessing Assistive Technology (ATK) | $228,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Children & Families | EPIC Skillz Project FY20 | $208,464 |
| Peltier, Edward | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Office | Pilot Test Project for Produced Water near Hardtner, Kansas | $199,175 |
| Orive, Maria | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | SG: Clonality and the Scope for Adaptation in Heterogeneous Environments | $162,324 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Genetic Dissection and Characterization of Variation in Copper Resistance in Drosophila Melanogaster | $122,836 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | HKA | A Guidebook for Risk-Based Construction Inspection | $122,601 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | US Geological Survey | Maintain Existing and Wxpand Kansas-Based Data Services to the NGWMN | $84,720 |
| Stewart, Debora | Kansas Geological Survey | US Geological Survey | Preservation of Kansas Oil and Gas Well Geologic Data, Records, and Samples, and Aerial Photographs, FY2019 | $82,549 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | National Endowment for the Arts | Exploring Marginalized Communities Through the Woman's Voice | $70,000 |
| Michaelis, Elias | HBC + Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | KU ADC Mitochondrial Genomics and Metabolism Core Supplement | $63,551 |
| Yan, Xinmai | Mechanical Engineering | Vesarex LLC | Ultrasound-Facilitated Endovascular Laser Thrombolysis | $58,541 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry + Mechanical Engineering / Chemistry | Digital Nanogenetics LLC | A Novel Single Molecule Sequencing Technology for Direct, Label-less Detection of Unamplified DNA Single Molecules | $41,738 |
| MacDonald, Teresa | Biodiversity Institute | University of California - Berkeley | STEM Escape: Immersing Urban and Rural Families in Biomedical Mysteries | $31,969 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Theatre on the Spectrum | $30,000 |
| Geana, Mugur | Journalism | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Sexual Health Empowerment for Jail-Involved Women's Health Literacy and Prevention | $28,650 |
| Stachnik, Justin | Geography & Atmospheric Science | University of Oklahoma | Analysis of TRMM-GPM Observation to Improve Our Process Level Understanding and Modeling of Precipitation and Latent Heating in Tropical Easterly Waves | $26,075 |
May - June 2019
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Administrative Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Enhanced Implementation of K-Scope & ASII Tunnel Detection Analysis Approach Using FWI, Modal Segmentation Methods, and Integrated Multi-Modal Techniques | $3,630,349 |
| Hock, Michael | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Possible Selves and Self-Determination: Improving Transition Outcomes for High School Students with Learning Disabilities | $3,293,003 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Defense | Development of a Military-Specific Transdiagnostic Eating-Disorder Survey and Screening Tool in a Nationally Representative Sample of Veterans | $1,721,698 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Professional Development to Support Intervention Implementation of the Promoting Communication Tools for Advancing Language in Kids (PC TALK) for Infants and Toddlers at Risk for or with Disabilities | $1,400,000 |
| Boyd, Brian | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Effects of Implicit Bias on Children's Early Outcomes | $1,400,000 |
| Sailor, Wayne | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project DataWall: A Decision Support System for MTSS | $1,388,621 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Technology Education for Women in Transition: Broadening Participation Through Innovations | $1,038,035 |
| Vakser, Ilya | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Molecular Biology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Science Foundation | Bilateral BBSRC-NSF/BIO: CIBR: Structural Modeling of Interactome to Assess Phenotypic Effects of Genetic Variation | $957,042 |
| Perkins, Jonathan | Academic Resource Center, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Institute for International Education | Building Language Capacity and Cultural Competency to Meet National Security Needs: The University of Kansas Language Training Center | $704,002 |
| Royon, Christophe | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | NASA Goddard Space Center | AGILE: Advanced enerGetic Ion eLectron tElescope | $659,940 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Science Foundation | Engineering Interfaces for High-Performance Oxide Superconductor Nanocomposite Films | $502,749 |
| Alexander, Perry | Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Adventium Labs | Vulnerabilities Out of Learned Timed Automata (VOLTA) | $459,520 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | IDPH CQI Support and Module Development (FY2019) | $442,221 |
| Picking, William | Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Identification of Small Molecule Probes for Dissecting the Roles of Sorting Platform Components within the Type III Secretion System | $416,625 |
| Chapman, Shawna | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | LYFTE: Lifting Young Families toward Excellence | $335,227 |
| Ginther, Donna | Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: The Effect of State Disinvestment in Higher Education on Research Quality and Returns to Scale in Science Funding | $236,790 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Title V MCH Statewide Needs Assessment | $216,281 |
| Wehmeyer, Michael | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | AspirePlus: A Researcher-Practitioner Partnership to Promote Self-Determination and More Positive Student Outcomes | $199,961 |
| Bever, James | Kansas Biological Survey | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Legume-Rhizobia Mutualism as a Driver of Grassland Composition and Community Resistance to Invasion | $150,670 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Minnesota | Control of Chromosome Segregation by DNA Topoisomerase II | $150,371 |
| Dunn, Robert | Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Institutes of Health | Scanning Resonator Microscopy | $142,202 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Integrated Biotherapeutics Inc. | Mining Natively Paired Macaque Antibodies for Marburg Virus Protective Antibodies | $129,989 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Universities Space Research Association | Searching for Torus Emission in Cold Quasars | $114,300 |
| Luo, Bo | Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Security Agency | GenCyber Summer Camp at the University of Kansas: Inspiring the Next Generation of Cyber Stars | $98,411 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Fibertek Inc. | Acquisition Design and Data Conditioning in Advance of Implementation of K-Scope for Assessment of Groundbreaker Capabilities to Improve Subterranean Detection Capabilities | $87,701 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering | Wichita State University | National Space Grant Consortium College and Fellowship 2019 | $67,950 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Community Based Project Evaluation | $60,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal | $52,303 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Ensuring Mental Health Needs are Met for All Students Through a Multi-Tiered System of Support | $51,910 |
| Sullivan, Pamela | Geography & Atmospheric Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Colorado School of Mines | CZ RCN: Building Capacity to Deepen the Critical Zone: Expanding Boundaries and Exploring Gradients through Data-Model Synergy | $40,049 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | KINBRE Summer Scholars Y6 | $36,360 |
